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How to change the timezone on CentOS/RHEL

May 23rd, 2011 by @HKw@! | No Comments | Filed in centos, Fedora, RedHat

I noticed that my Centos Server logs is not on the correct time. I tried to check the time from the command line and found that the timezone is pointing to the wrong timezone

root@thundercat ~]# date
Mon May 23 00:21:56 EDT 2011

How to change it? There are two ways to change the timezone on CentOS. (more…)

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How to limit SSH access by IP Address

May 9th, 2011 by @HKw@! | No Comments | Filed in centos, Debian, Fedora, Linux, RedHat, Ubuntu
To Secure your Linux server and prevent attacks, you can limit SSHd to certain IP addresses by modify the /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/host.deny files

Below are the few steps :-

1) Open /etc/hosts.allow

Use the following command to open the hosts.allow file:

vi /etc/hosts.allow

Once this file is open, add the following line:

SSHD : ipaddress : ALLOW

2) Open /etc/hosts.deny

Use the following command to open the hosts.deny file:

vi /etc/hosts.deny

Once it opens, add the following line to the file:

SSHD : ALL : DENY

Save and exit, and you have successfully limited SSH access by IP address.

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How to store and share files and folders on cloud.

May 3rd, 2011 by @HKw@! | No Comments | Filed in Fedora, Linux, Mac OS X, Ubuntu, Utilities Software, Win Vista, Win7, Windows, WinXP

Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere. Dropbox provides users with 2 GB of space for free, and they can pay for more. Dropbox  support Windows, Mac OS X, Fedora, Ubuntu, iPad, iPhone, Android and Blackberry.

After you install Dropbox on your computer, any file you save to your Dropbox will automatically save to all your computers, your iPhone and iPad and even the Dropbox website.

To know more about Dropbox, click HERE to visit Dropbox web site.

To download Dropbox, just click HERE to download.

You will see the installation guide on the download page. Just follow the instruction to install it.

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